Joanie Greggaines

Physical Fitness Expert

Spring 1961 Graduate

         Following graduation from Lincoln, Joanie attended San Francisco State University, being awarded a BA and MA in education. After rewarding years as a secondary school physical education teacher in San Francisco, Joanie began to apply her knowledge of health and exercise to the public at large.

        In 1979, she launched her nationally syndicated television exercise show, Morning Stretch, which currently airs on the American Independent Network. She has produced, choreographed and starred in thirteen exercise videos which have sold over ten million copies. In 1985, she began a talk show on KGO Radio in San Francisco, which currently is the number one rated Saturday morning radio show in Northern California. She has also hosted Let's Talk Health, a two-hour nationally syndicated radio talk show. Joanie is certified by the International Dance Exercise Association, the American College of Sports Medicine, and the Kenneth Cooper Institute of Aerobic Training.

        In 1997, Joanie opened a training facility, ProActive Fitness Center, in Mill Valley, California which offers personal training, classes and seminars on fitness. She is currently working on a book for a division of Random House which will be released in late 1998.

        Joanie is a member of both the President council on Physical Fitness & Sports and the California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness & Sports. She has been awarded the American Fitness Leader Award by the Junior Chamber of Commerce of America and in 1995 the Silver Spoon Award by the California Dietetic Association. Joanie has also been extremely active in civic affairs and currently serves as a director of the Board of Director of the Arthritis Foundation.

        Her numerous accomplishments have led to her biography being included in Who's Who in American Women and Who's Who in American Education and she is on the American biography Institute's Honor List.

        In recognition of her many accomplishments, Joanie was inducted into the Abraham Lincoln High School Wall of Fame in May 1998.